NOTE: I will attempt to release an EXTRA edition of The Hudak Report covering the results of the American election this afternoon. I am going to be a bit busy so it might not be possible, but I will try to get an EXTRA edition. The results are not covered in this edition because they came out too late for publication.

Featured News

CBC News: Budget touts $81.8B defence investment as a sovereignty 'blueprint' but offers only rough fiscal sketches

CBC News: Goodbye oil and gas cap? Ottawa signals it’s gone, with some caveats

Common Dreams: War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84

Foreign Policy: With Military Buildup Against Venezuela, the U.S. Eyes Cuba as Well

The Progressive Magazine: The Betrayal of Darfur

World Socialist Web Site: US citizen shot by ICE in California as Illinois detainees sue over inhumane conditions

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Canada returned to approved list for Chinese group travellers

• 'Change is here': Yukon Party wins majority government, as Liberals implode

• Federal budget 2025: Carney earmarks $89.7-billion in new spending to counter U.S. protectionism

• Federal budget 2025: Proposed new national emergency alert system gets $55.4-million

• German probe of suspected fraud and money-laundering extends to Canada

• How Budget 2025 could change how you bank, from fees to cryptocurrency

• Inuit urge Ottawa to include northern initiatives on major projects list

• MP d’Entremont resigns from Conservative caucus on budget day

• Police say nothing suspicious after man dies at B.C. ostrich farm protest camp

USA news:

• A defiant Trump vows no SNAP payments until Democrats cave on shutdown

• Atalco alumina refinery faces lawsuit from Louisiana environmental group

• Attorney general again declines to certify ballot measure aimed at protecting Arkansas’ environment

• DOJ Prosecutor Says He’ll Just Keep Prosecuting Despite Court Ruling He Was Illegally Appointed

• If the Trump Administration Wants More Babies, It Shouldn’t Let Poor Families Go Hungry

• Guatemalan teen returns home after judge rules detention unlawful

• Judge Rules Asylum Seekers Do Not Have to Pay Annual Fee, For Now

• Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom

• Plaintiffs' lawyers: Bovino views protesters as 'violent rioters,' tells officers to ‘go hard’ against them

• ‘We didn’t lose, we learned’: Amazon union campaign expands to Durham

World News

• Arrest of ‘Abu Lulu’ does little to distance RSF from Sudan massacre

• Flooding From Typhoon Kalmaegi Kills 26 In Philippines, Thousands Stranded

• Inter-American Court Orders Ecuador to Protect Imprisoned Former Vice President Glas

• Israel arrests IDF whistle-blower who exposed the rape of a Palestinian prisoner

• Lula says Brazil will seek independent probe into 'disastrous' Rio police raid

• New report by The Lancet: More than 3 million Palestinian life-years lost in Gaza genocide

• North Korea’s former ‘head of state’ Kim Yong Nam dead at 97

• Norway votes to pause ethical divestments by its $2.1T wealth fund

• One year after Novi Sad train station collapse in Serbia, demands for justice continue

• They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank

• Wikipedia co-founder joins editing conflict over the Gaza genocide page

What I’m Reading

• Dick Cheney and the Big Lie That Should Never Be Forgotten

• From Executive Overreach to Undeclared Wars, We Are Living in the World Cheney Made

• Influencers have fractured reality in Portland

• Mangione, Mamdani and the Media

• Quebec labour gears up to challenge the CAQ’s attacks: How do we defend the right to strike?

• Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order

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